Summary: In the period 1800-1935, the origins of the Ratana Movement are to be found in the adjustment of the Maori people to their changing social and economic enviroment. The communal Maori was deprived, during the nineteenth century, of his tribal structure, his lands, his religious faith and his mana or self-respect. This occurred in four stages: acceptance of a new faith and new techniques, distrust and war, desperation which produced a series of rectionary cults, and finally apathetic resignation to eventual extinction of the race. From the degenerate Maori situation at the turn of the century there grew �the Maori renaissance� which was prepared for by the ideas of the educated leaders, created by a general social movement and effected by means of legislation which was demanded by the morehu or common people. The latter did not follow the educated leaders but were given a channel of expression in the Ratana movement which was an important factor in the Maori revival.

Summary: In the period 1800-1935, the origins of the Ratana Movement are to be found in the adjustment of the Maori people to their changing social and economic enviroment. The communal Maori was deprived, during the nineteenth century, of his tribal structure, his lands, his religious faith and his mana or self-respect. This occurred in four stages: acceptance of a new faith and new techniques, distrust and war, desperation which produced a series of rectionary cults, and finally apathetic resignation to eventual extinction of the race. From the degenerate Maori situation at the turn of the century there grew �the Maori renaissance� which was prepared for by the ideas of the educated leaders, created by a general social movement and effected by means of legislation which was demanded by the morehu or common people. The latter did not follow the educated leaders but were given a channel of expression in the Ratana movement which was an important factor in the Maori revival.